John Willis's Blog
Much like “Web 2.0″, cloud computing was a collection of related concepts
that people recognized, but didn’t really have a good descriptor for, a
definition in search of a term, you could say. When Google CEO Eric Schmidt
used it in 2006 to describe their own stuff and then Amazon included the word
“cloud” in EC2 when it was launched a few weeks later (August 24), the
term became mainstream.
Chris Sears, one of Atlanta’s finer cloud enthusiasts has earned some
battle scars on the forums discussing the topic of “Cloud Computing”.
I remember him once telling me that he had done some research on the original
sighting of the phrase “Cloud Computing”. So this afternoon when I
posted a tweet asking Who Coined The Phrase Cloud Computing? he sent the
following response:
"As for the origin of the term “cloud computing”, there are a few
possibilities…... (more)

John Willis's Blog
I was reading a recent post about the Merrill Lynch’s research note titled
“The Cloud Wars: $100+ billion at stake” and it started me thinking about
the cloud vs. IT infrastructure question again. As the cloud-o-sphere tries
to define this “cloud” thing, myself included, it seems like the list of
who is a cloud just keeps getting longer and longer. I originally thought the
Forrester 11 list was a little to long when it included SalesForce.com and
Akamai as cloud providers. The general consensus seems to be, if you are a
SaaS, PaaS, or a IaaS you are probably a ... (more)